Gaza Terrorists Claim They Are Holding Iranian Zelzal Missiles to Use on Israel

Iran Revolutionary Guard’s Zelzal missile is launched in a drill near the city of Qom, 80 miles south of Tehran. (Standeyo)

The Islamic Jihad terror group in Gaza claims it is holding Iranian Zelzal missiles in its arsenal. The Zelzal can carry a payload of up to 600 kg of explosives.Israel National News reported, via Lucianne:

Islamic Jihad has “many more surprises up its sleeve,” said Abdullah Shalah, head of the terror group said Sunday. In an interview on an Arab satellite station, Shalah said that “We have a store of strategic weapons that we have never used,” but was prepared to bring out against Israel if the war in Gaza continued. With that, he did not specify what those weapons were.

According to sources in Gaza, those weapons are Iranian-made “Zelzal” missiles, an unguided missile that can carry a payload of up to 600 kg (1,323 pounds) of explosives for a distance of up to 200 kilometers. Speaking to the Donia Alwattan news site, the sources, which claim to be close to Islamic Jihad, did not say how many such missiles the terror group had, adding that “this is their ‘judgement day’ weapon.”

Reports in the past have said that Iran had supplied these missiles to Hebollah as far back as 2006, but they were apparently not used during the Second Lebanon War, Israeli officials said. The Zelzal missiles could be deflected or neutralized by the Patriot missile system, or Israel’s own Arrow protection system.